[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Update docs and TODO for the protocol refactoring.
Eric S. Raymond
gitlab at mg.gitlab.com
Thu Sep 29 21:04:59 UTC 2016
Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec
Commits:
1f41e1b4 by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-09-29T17:04:19-04:00
Update docs and TODO for the protocol refactoring.
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2 changed files:
- devel/TODO
- docs/index.txt
Changes:
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devel/TODO
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--- a/devel/TODO
+++ b/devel/TODO
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
=== Code ===
-* Land TESTFRAME.
-
-* Land Daniel's protocol-machine refactoring.
+* Test broadcast and symmetric modes; either fix them or remove them.
* Land Daniel's redesign of the restriction language.
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docs/index.txt
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--- a/docs/index.txt
+++ b/docs/index.txt
@@ -116,10 +116,14 @@ few will be user-visible.
recent versions of NTP Classic, and if not broken would have been at
high risk for bugs that would enable DoS vulnerabilities.
+* Interleave mode has been removed. It didn't work correctly (there
+ was an implementation error in the timestamp handling), so no point
+ in allowing it to increase attack surface.
+
* The code has been systematically hardened, with unsafe string
copy and formatting functions replaced by safe (bounded) ones.
-* In toto, more than 60% of the NTP Classic code has been outright
+* In toto, more than 65% of the NTP Classic code has been outright
removed, with less than 5% new code added. This is a dramatic
reduction in attack surface.
View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/commit/1f41e1b47abd9261a47a38db7fb00df238097952
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